George Santayana
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Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel.
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Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval
I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.
The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
A child only educated at school is an uneducated child.
The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
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I mean, we've built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it's really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that's what's so amazing about the scale that it's at today.
Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.
Things fall apart the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
War is a contagion.
I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure... worried about the economy, worried about their jobs, worried about their kids' futures... actually the disconnect between the public and media discourse and people's everyday concerns has become bigger not smaller.
A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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